Anchorage Memorial Park, Cemetery in Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Anchorage Memorial Park is a large cemetery in Anchorage, Alaska that spans nine city blocks and includes several distinct burial sections. The grounds hold thousands of gravestones and monuments of varying styles, from simple stones to more elaborate memorials, with maintained lawns, trees, and wide paths for walking.

The cemetery was founded in 1915 and was one of the first public spaces set aside in Anchorage as part of President Woodrow Wilson's town plan. More than 12,500 people have been buried here since its opening, and in 1993 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, recognizing its importance as a key part of the city's past.

The cemetery holds the graves of people whose names mark Anchorage's public life: Leopold David, the city's first mayor, congressmen Anthony Dimond and Howard Pollock, and governors Walter Hickel and William Stolt. Artist Sydney Laurence and explorer Ada Blackjack are buried here too. The cemetery's own maintenance building is a leftover of Willow Park, the public housing complex that stood on its edge from about 1954 to 1986.

The cemetery is open to the public at no charge and features maintained paths with benches for sitting and reflection. An online database with a map helps visitors find specific graves and learn about the people buried there.

Walter Hickel, a U.S. cabinet secretary and Alaska governor, is buried standing up and facing east toward Washington, D.C. The cemetery also holds the grave of Ada Blackjack, the explorer who survived alone on Wrangel Island in 1923. Leopold David, Anchorage's first mayor, lies here too.